Randy Carlton Hunsucker Releases “Poetry 5.0”

Winston-Salem, NC, March 13, 2009 --(PR.com)-- At last, poetry that is approachable and readable for most everyone - even the most attention deficit among us. Better readability, however, does not mean Poetry 5.0 suffers from any loss of depth, imagery, or humor.

Poetry 5.0 by local author Randy Carlton Hunsucker of Mount Airy combines the very best of his work written during his high school years up to 2009. Many of his poems hark back to life and times growing up in the mountains and foothills of North Carolina, even mentioning Old Salem and his memories of a place called Laurel Mountain.

From the agony of peer pressure in the topical, “2 X Pressure,” an entry tackling the subject of friends pressuring you to try drugs, to contemporary poems featuring text messaging style writing, Poetry 5.0 features as diverse a writing style as it does topics and emotions. Many of his poems feature an echo effect such as on the simple, but haunting, “The Headless That Comes.” Case in point: “Look forward, just forward/Or, get stabbed by the sword/Break away, break away/Your time is today.” The angry, “ur crap,” an ode to blue collar workers everywhere, decries bosses with lines such as, “U don’t have a clue how to supervise/So go indulge n ur prescription highs,” which also seems to offer a social comment on an America seemingly overrun with adults being medicated (a topic he picks up on in several poems).

Still there are happier moments, such as mushy poem to his wife, “Journey.” “Games together, hotdogs and baseball parks/Walks on the beach, crab-covered at dark,” he writes. “Thanks for the journey that was/Thanks for the journey that is/Thanks for the journey that will be.” Poems about homelessness, racism, and spirituality are all there too. A standout entry, “The Trilogy,” compares the unwanted to being like bugs “stuck in a light fixture on the ceiling,” ending with, “I’m someone you know/I’m someone you’re supposed to love.”

Poetry 5.0’s approximately 70 poems are too numerous to mention every one, however, attention must be given to a shocking, bomb-shaped poem dedicated to George W. Bush in which he argues that a war is never truly won when a soul is left “lost or bleeding.”

The approximately 100 page Poetry 5.0 is available through the publisher on-line and even free as a .pdf download. “Poetry is like love or sex,” Hunsucker states, “if you have to pay for it, something is wrong.” To arrange a book signing or interview, contact Hunsucker at 336-648-2247. Lulu Publishing

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